Explorations: Freedom – The North Carolina Symphony commemorates the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation through concerts, discussions, and images.

Join the North Carolina Symphony for the culmination of these Exploration events, Freedom, featuring James Westwater’s symphonic photochoreography The Eternal Struggle, and Lincoln Portrait, narrated by David Hartman.

Learn more about the concert, Freedom, in our radio commercials for Raleighand for Fayetteville.

SOUNDBITES AT THE PUB @ ParizadeMonday, February 18 | 6pm dinner, concert to follow Dinner and chamber music Civil War-era brass band tunes played by the North Carolina Symphony Brass Quintet Pre-concert talk by Dr. Kristen Turner of N.C. State University

Dr. Lamb, working with baritone Scott MacLeod, will expand upon the ideas of music as an expressive art form, and will share how African American composers have used it as their voice during our nation’s struggle for freedom, justice and equality. At the end of the presentation, the floor will be opened for Q&As. TICKETS: Free event, open to the public